Who’s paying taxes on Quincy home of Whitey Bulger's lady friend?

More than 16 years after James “Whitey” Bulger and his fugitive girlfriend, Catherine Greig, fled the state ahead of Bulger’s federal racketeering and murder indictments, a house that Greig bought in Quincy’s Squantum neighborhood in 1986 is still in her name.

More than 16 years after the pair fled the state in 1995 ahead of Bulger’s federal racketeering and murder indictments, a house that Greig bought in Quincy’s Squantum neighborhood in 1986 is still in her name.

Greig, a onetime dental hygienist, has been the owner of record of a gray frame house at 16 Hillcrest Road since Sept. 11 of that year, the day a Norfolk County Land Court deed shows that she paid $160,000 cash for it.

The property continues to be rented. On Monday one of current tenants declined to identify a landlord – though there clearly is one, since about $4,600 in annual property taxes are being paid, with no liens filed.

Greig’s certificate of title was filed less than two months after she sold a Louisburg South condominium unit near Quincy’s Wollaston Beach. That sale was recorded July 22, 1986.

Bulger’s name doesn’t appear on either deed, but some of his most notorious murders were committed while he lived at Louisburg South.

Greig was apparently living at 16 Hillcrest when she fled with Bulger in January 1995, on a tip from former FBI agent and convicted murderer John Connolly. Connolly had used Bulger and his associate Stephen “the Rifleman” Flemmi as informants for decades.

Bulger and Greig are believed to have gone to Louisiana and then Chicago before going overseas. Bulger is now 81, Greig 60. The last credible sighting of Bulger was in London in 2002. The FBI believes Greig has had numerous plastic surgeries to conceal her identity.

The Hillcrest Road landlord’s identity is a mystery, too.

The Quincy tax collector’s office declined to provide tax billing details for the property. City Solicitor James Timmins said such information may not exist, if the bills are still being sent to the Hillcrest Road address in Greig’s name and paid in person at the city hall tax office.

Whatever the arrangement, “somebody is paying it,” Timmins said.

WCVB-TV reports that property tax bills are being sent to a South Boston home listed as being owned by Catherine Greig, David Greig and Jenit Greig. David and Jenit’s relationship to Catherine was not immediately known.

"We've always been aware that Catherine Greig still owns a house," FBI Special Agent Gregory Comcowich told WCVB. "We welcome any cooperation from her family and friends who know about her current whereabouts."

The South Boston property on East 4th Street is assessed at $588,100, according to city records.